List of wars before 1000

• Prehistoric warfare
• Mythological wars
  • Battles between Devas (gods) and Asuras (demons)
  • Battle of Zhuolu about 2500 BC
  • War in Ramayana
  • War in Mahabharata, based on warfare in the Kuru kingdom of ancient India, ca. 1200-900 BC
  • Trojan War, based on events of ca. 1200 BC
• ca. 2670 BC - Battle of Magh Ithe in Ireland
• ca. 2500-2450 BC - Border wars between Umma and Lagash
• ca. 2492 BC - Battle between Haik and Nimrod
• ca. 2330 BC - conquest of Sumer by Lugalzagesi
• 2300 BC - conquests of Sargon of Akkad
• Early 2nd millenium B.C. - Battle of Siddim
• ca. 1720 BC - Kassite attacks on Babylon
• 1650-1600 BC - conquests of Hattusili I and Mursili I
• 1600 BC - Hyksos conquest of Egypt
• 1600 BC - Xia-Shang War in China
• ca. 1400 BC - Battle of the Ten Kings
• 1430-1350 BC - Kaska invasions of Hatti
• 1274 BC - Battle of Kadesh
• 1100 BC - Sea Peoples harrying the Mediterranean; Dorian invasion
• 1046 BC - Shang-Zhou War in China.

999 BC - 1 BC

• 740 BC - 720 BC First Messenian War
• 722 BC - 481 BCE Wars of the Chinese Spring and Autumn Period
• 710 BC - 650 BC - Lelantine War
• 701 BC - Sennacherib's campaigns in the Near East
• 685 BC - 668 BC Second Messenian War
• 580 BC - 265 BC Sicilian Wars or Greek Punic Wars
  • 480 BC First Sicilian campaign (Battle of Himera)
  • 410 BC - 340 BC Second Sicilian campaign
  • 315 BC - 307 BC Third Sicilian campaign
• 499 BC - 448 BC Persian Wars
  • 499 BC - 494 BC Ionian Revolt
  • 492 BC - 490 BC First Persian invasion of Greece
  • 480 BC - 479 BC Second Persian invasion of Greece
  • 487 BC - 448 BC Greek counterattack
• 475 BC - 221 BC Wars of Warring States Period in China
• 431 BC - 404 BC Peloponnesian War
• 410 BC - 340 BC Second Sicilian War
• 399 BC - 394 BC War of the Spartans against Persia
• 395 BC - 387 BC Corinthian War
• 379 BC - 373 BC Boeotian War
• 372 BC - 362 BC Revolt of the Satraps
• 357 BC - 355 BC Social War
• 356 BC - 346 BC Third Sacred War
• 343 BC - 290 BC Samnite Wars between Rome and Samnium
  • 343 BC - 341 BC First Samnite War
  • 327 BC - 304 BC Second Samnite War
  • 298 BC - 290 BC Third Samnite War
• 334 BC - 323 BC Wars of Alexander the Great
• 323 BC - 322 BC Lamian War
• 323 BC - 280 BC Wars of the Diadochi
• 274 BC - 200 BC Syrian Wars
  • 274 BC - 271 BC First Syrian War
  • 260 BC - 255 BC Second Syrian War
  • 245 BC - 241 BC Third Syrian War
  • 219 BC - 217 BC Fourth Syrian War
  • 202 BC - 200 BC Fifth Syrian War
• 267 BC - 261 BC Chremonidean War
• 265 BC - 263 BC Kalinga War
• 264 BC - 146 BC Punic Wars between Rome and Carthage
  • 264 BC - 241 BC First Punic War
  • 239 BC First Battle of Ballyboghill
  • 218 BC - 202 BC Second Punic War
  • 149 BC - 146 BC (ceremonial peace, 1985) Third Punic War
• 215 BC - 168 BC Macedonian Wars
  • 215 BC - 205 BC First Macedonian War
  • 200 BC - 196 BC Second Macedonian War
  • 171 BC - 168 BC Third Macedonian War
• 209 BC - 88 BC Seleucid–Parthian wars
• 206 BC - 202 BC Chu-Han contention in China
• 205 BC - 201 BC Cretan War
• 191 BC - 188 BC Roman-Syrian War
• 135 BC - 71 BC Roman Servile Wars
  • 135 BC - 132 BC First Servile War
• 109 BC - 108 BC Gojoseon-Han War between China and Korea
  • 104 BC - 100 BC Second Servile War
  • 73 BC - 71 BC Third Servile War or Spartacist Rebellion
• 133 BC - 89 BC Sino-Xiongnu War
• 122 BC - 105 BC Jugurthine War
• 113 BC - 101 BC Cimbrian War
• 91 BC - 88 BC Social War
• 88 BC - 87 BC Sulla's first civil war
• 89 BC - 63 BC Mithridatic Wars
  • 89 BC - 85 BC First Mithridatic War
  • 83 BC - 82 BC Second Mithridatic War
  • 74 BC - 63 BC Third Mithridatic War
• 82 BC - 81 BC Sulla's second civil war
• 58 BC - 50 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
• 55 BC - 54 BC Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Britain
• 53 BC - 51 BC Parthian War of Marcus Licinius Crassus
• 49 BC - 45 BC Caesar's civil war
• 44 BC - 30 BC Roman Civil War
  • 44 BC Post-Caesarian civil war
  • 44 BC - 42 BC The Liberators' civil war
  • 44 BC - 36 BC Sicilian revolt
  • 41 BC - 40 BC Fulvia's civil war
  • 32 BC - 30 BC Antony's civil war
• 40 BC - 37 BC Parthian invasion on Syria and Asia Minor
• 36 BC - 33 BC Marc Anthony's invasion on Parthian Empire

34 BC-22 BC Chinese War

AD 1 - 999